Today is Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating June 19th, 1865, when enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation finally reached then-remote Texas, officially ending slavery in the Confederacy. (Although slavery was not stamped out of the rest of the United States until the 13th … | Continue reading
Take a look at the incredible cityscape rendered by 3D modeler and VFX artist Ian Hubert using Blender: If you put headphones on and watch the higher-res version, you can hear that they've got incredible sound design as well. I'm impressed at how immersive the shot is: That | Continue reading
Ian Hubert, the 3D modeler and VFX artist behind that dazzling sci-fi city shot, has got a host of short "Lazy Tutorials - For Lazy People, By Lazy People" Blender videos that he's posted online. Each are about 60 seconds, they're fun to watch and Blenderites among you might pick … | Continue reading
Take a look at the incredible cityscape rendered by 3D modeler and VFX artist Ian Hubert using Blender: If you put headphones on and watch the higher-res version, you can hear that they've got incredible sound design as well. I'm impressed at how immersive the shot is: That | Continue reading
An architect and designers will examine the role of design in social justice issues and field viewer questions | Continue reading
SPACE10, Ikea's research and design lab, has launched a series of publicly-viewable "digital experiments" featuring new ways to interact with your home. They're not embeddable, but we'll link to some examples: Light Gestures, by Design Technologist Timi Oyedeji, asks "What if you … | Continue reading
Michael DiTullo interviews his former boss in our latest 1:1 series episode | Continue reading
Industrial designer Eric Strebel missed the functionality of Apple's old power adapters with the flip-out cable management wings. So this week he designs and prototypes the solution, even including that tiny little cable clip. I'm impressed that he nailed the overall fit on the f … | Continue reading
Thomas Jefferson, chief author of the Declaration of Independence, slave owner and slave trader, 3rd President of the United States, lawyer and architect, founded the University of Virginia in 1819. He designed the school's architecture curriculum as well as the campus, incorpora … | Continue reading
The Fens is the nickname for a particularly arable region in the UK. Flat and coastal, this stretch of eastern England was initially unusable marshland. But in the 1600s, Dutch engineers--who knew all about draining coastal plains, as that's what the Netherlands consisted of--wer … | Continue reading
"Ninio's Extinction Illusion" reveals a weird quirk of human vision | Continue reading
This year's Strategy & Research design awards jury was led by Jennifer Passas of Gensler | Continue reading
This year's Sports & Recreation design awards jury was led by Max Steffen of The North Face | Continue reading
This year's Personal Accessory design awards jury was led by Francois Nguyen of frog | Continue reading
This year's Tools & Work design awards jury was led by Gillian Rode of Ueno | Continue reading
This year's Speculative design awards jury was led by Radha Mistry of Autodesk | Continue reading
This year's Service Design design awards jury was led by Natasha Margot Blum of Blumline | Continue reading
This year's Packaging design awards jury was led by Hamish Thain of Ammunition | Continue reading
This year's Interaction design awards jury was led by Nick de la Mare of Fjord | Continue reading
This year's Furniture & Lighting design awards jury was led by Bret Recor of Box Clever | Continue reading
This year's Furniture & Lighting design awards jury was led by Ben Gaffney of L. Ercolani | Continue reading
This year's Design for Social Impact design awards jury was led by Rebecca Hui of Roots Studio | Continue reading
This year's Health & Wellness design awards jury was led by Stephanie Yung of Smart Design | Continue reading
This year's Commercial Equipment design awards jury was led by Peter Michaelian of Dolby | Continue reading
This year's Visual Communication design awards jury was led by Eddie Opara of Pentagram | Continue reading
This year's Design Education Initiative design awards jury was led by Allan Chochinov of the School of Visual Arts (SVA) | Continue reading
This year's Consumer Technology design awards jury was led by Daniel Hundt of Nuro | Continue reading
The veteran comedy writer has spent years researching how to access creativity | Continue reading
…by hacking an old set of markers and a new box of tampons! | Continue reading
This thing can change filament color AS IT'S BEING EXTRUDED | Continue reading
Comic book writer Gerry Conway created the Punisher, a new bad guy for Spider-Man to fight, way back in 1974. The character was a Vietnam veteran whose family was murdered, and he subsequently goes insane and turns into a crazed vigilante. He kills all lawbreakers regardless of w … | Continue reading
HelloMasks solve a major human factors problem with conventional masks | Continue reading
Clyde Dallas has wanted to be a truck driver since childhood. But at 14, a wrestling accident put him in a wheelchair. Now an adult, Dallas has decided to pursue his dream, against the odds. In order to become a trucker you must earn a CDL (Commercial Driver's License), which | Continue reading
Reader H. Andy Lingua came across an older post we did on Leonardo da Vinci's design for a self-supporting bridge, and pointed out that the method was used in ancient China as well. Lingua also pointed us towards one of the quickest and simplest demonstrations of how the bridge c … | Continue reading
All supermarkets, pharmacies and hardware stores I've recently visited have erected plastic shields to protect their workers. But one area I've seen no protection for are drive-thru windows. All shift, the worker in the window gets quite close to customers, as they must hand them … | Continue reading
During the lockdown in Australia, these neighbors in Cairn came up with a way to have a beer together while observing social distancing: Meanwhile in the UK, Paul Hurton and Anthony Dunn, who've been next-door neighbors in Durham for 20 years, went with a slightly different desig … | Continue reading
Clyde Dallas has wanted to be a truck driver since childhood. But at 14, a wrestling accident put him in a wheelchair. Now an adult, Dallas has decided to pursue his dream, against the odds. In order to become a trucker you must earn a CDL (Commercial Driver's License), which | Continue reading
Design professor Hector Silva asks the roundtable what non-people-of-color can do to help. Designers Spencer Nugent, Jasmine Kent and Kevin Bethune bring up hyper-awareness, humility, empathy, the importance of design research, creating space for conversation and more. While this … | Continue reading
Design professor Hector Silva poses a viewer question: Should designers remain apolitical on their social media, because getting political is "bad for business?" Designers Spencer Nugent, Jasmine Kent and Kevin Bethune sound off: | Continue reading
Design professor Hector Silva asks a viewer question: "Should we strive to be great black/Hispanic/Asian/etc. designers, or just great designers overall?" Designers Spencer Nugent, Jasmine Kent and Kevin Bethune talk about the impossibility of disentanglement, what makes you uniq … | Continue reading
Got downtime in the downturn? Here's a potential way to boost your career | Continue reading
Design professor Hector Silva poses a viewer question: Should designers remain apolitical on their social media, because getting political is "bad for business?" Designers Spencer Nugent, Jasmine Kent and Kevin Bethune sound off: | Continue reading
Flipo Flip is a desk toy that is designed to bring a motion of continuing flipping, rolling, and falling at the same time | Continue reading
PRIMER 2020's conference pivoted from a physical to virtual design event in a matter of weeks—here's how their team did it | Continue reading
This excerpt from the roundtable discussion doesn't start with a question; instead, design professor Hector Silva discusses how, visually and sartorially speaking, he doesn't look like a professor to the general public. He then tells the story of getting pulled over--with a backs … | Continue reading